While there are idiots in every establishment you work for, Geek Squad is not inundated with them. I worked for them while in school and some of the guys took a lot of pride in their work. They have some good tools and training at their disposal. The front Geek Squad guys are the "customer techs" which focus more on selling and checking machines in and out. The smarter guys linger in the back and are known as advanced repair agents. Those are the ones manually removing malware when scans don't get it all, fixing boot issues, upgrading hardware, etc. Sure, requiring A+ would help immensely with getting rid of all the idiots, but some stores run a great crew.
I wonder if this will help them better compete with Nvidia when it comes to making cars smarter. We could certainly use more competition, but I hope Qualcomm can get over their internal staff issues before they get themselves more involved in another industry.
Considering some cable companies offer bundles of TV, Internet, and Phone for ~$60 a month, I see $25-40 as a tough sell. For $60 and having the web plus close to 100 channels, I don't see the benefit of having to buy a box and rely on streaming for only specific channels. Plus, I love using my TiVo commercial skip feature. No ads on most major shows.
I do like more competition though. Hopefully Google offers something good for the masses.
Even by knowing the stock was super inflated, you could have still made money and pulled out once it starts to drop off. Some people just rode the wave to make money and waited for something like this to happen. They're still coming out with a good ROI either way.
The largest issue here is creating the advertising ID and sending it over seas without user consent. This is pretty easy to comply with though, given it can all be done with a patch/UI modification.
Edge saves power on a few benchmarks but not across the board. Throwing out an arbitrary number of "x" percent could be saved by switching will confuse all the family members that call, asking if they should switch.
On the other end, Windows 10 is their own product. They can kind of do whatever they want, and we can decide if we use them or not.
Posts like this are constantly make me question if I should keep returning to this site. Seriously? What parent wouldn't want their kids to be able to hear things if they have the financial means to do so?
Who cares if a culture is killed off because we are enabling people to hear/hear again. Should we complain about eliminating wheel-chair marathons because we helped people walk again? Let's just boast about how technology is improving the quality of life instead of focusing on small and insignificant rubbish.
I'm glad they're supporting them. I just hope this phone doesn't come with a barrage of preinstalled apps that I don't need or want. If the phone is clean and basically a Nexus-like device with some cool Cyanogen mods, I'm all for it. I want better hardware at lower prices (who doesn't), but I also want a good experience on the phone.
We'll see what this does to the future phone market.
Let's add to the fact that the 9/11 terrorists did sound an alarm and multiple investigates we poorly underway. Stupid bureaucratic BS stalled the investigation by the FBI when the NSA passed info on to them. They knew they were suspicious but we were way too slow to respond.
This is actually very exciting for me. I have a fairly advanced Lyme disease with other related diseases (protomyxzoa). I have a worry for long term health issues because Lyme is consistently linked to Parkinson's in the long run. Seeing articles like this always give me the hope I've been expecting with modern medicine and technology.
Joe
Wow a company is including a new feature with a service people already pay $60 a year for. How dare they! I like that no one mentions getting 2 free games every month as well. Seems like Microsoft is so awful.
You need to pay $60 for almost any online service you do on Microsoft. Who the hell seriously expects being able to stream content online without paying for said service? Oh yeah, the OP.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
PS: Not a MS fanboy by any means. This is just a biased article that doesn't belong here.
It sounds like a great idea because there's less to carry around. As always we'll see how the device performs, how they're going to manage memory (how much memory?), and how much it will cost.
Until then, bring on the innovation.
Exactly. Apple has the resources to increase their web presence for music exposure. It would certainly suggest for more people to use their music over other possibly illegitimate sources. I don't mind Google's response to the whack a mole situation either. It seems highly logical.
I'm not sure why everyone is bashing the cloud. If I have more than one Xbox, which I do, my game saves are on both devices without having to save the file to an overpriced flash drive and then deal with moving it from box to box and worry about losing it. They don't charge extra money for cloud saves because they already screwed you with an annual $60 charge.
The feature itself can come in handy for those who use. For those who don't, it currently offers no hindrance on my gameplay or experience. I for one do support cloud saves. Now cloud based gaming is an entirely different animal that I am not too fond of.
I do agree with you. I'm simply referring to the simple tasks the general public does. Web surfing, iTunes, emails, etc. These are not heavily threaded tasks. Granted the difference is marginal because any modern processor can handle this with ease. Sure in highly threaded workloads the AMDs offer a better bang for your buck, but the general public does not do this on a day to day basis.
I guess I need to provide more information to help get my point across. Intel has 4th gen chips that run on a 7 watt TDP. The performance per watt is pretty remarkable. Intel's i7-3770K has a 77 watt TDP. AMD's FX-8350 has a 125 watt TDP, get's spanked by Intel in most benchmarks, and doesn't have any graphics chip on die to drive a monitor.
Translating that down, Intel has an advantage. I would love to be proven wrong though.
As usual, AMD is leaving out some key information. What will be the TDP of such chips? I've always rooted for AMD and all my systems were built with them. You can't beat an Ivy Bridge chip for performance for watt though. With the i7-3770K, AMD doesn't offer anything compelling to compete. I like the idea that they're using the GCN architecture to assist with processing, but have they done anything to the lithography or power consumption? Intel's haswell chips come out soon and those are even better. Power is key in the mobile space where a lot of chips are going.
-Joe
Honestly instead of a pissing match and comparing highest speeds for bragging rights why don't we focus more on getting gigabit connections throughout our country. What good is a gigabit connection if it's only in a select few spots of the country. Good for Sony, but as everyone mentioned before, they'll find some way to make things proprietary like they always do.
Yes is quad VS dual core, but they still sell for the same price. If you compared the A8/A10 to a quad core Intel, it would cost about 33% more at minimum, then people would complain that the Intel costs more and it's not a fair comparison to AMD.
Per clock cycle and per core, Intel simply destroys AMD. Factor in price and what you may be using the chip for, and it starts to become a little more competitive. If money is no issue, than an i5/i7 Ivy bridge with dedicated graphics is simply unbeatable. I own an Ivy Bridge i7 and a Phenom II 970 and in some tasks I can't tell a difference.
Also keep in mind that if you utilize the GPU for computing at all, your workload will finish sooner. So yes the power consumption is higher up front but if you finish the job sooner, you still end up consuming the same or less power, and you saved time. This is important with any processor.
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Oh cool another post about why crypto and mining is bad. Nvidia has already stated they are ramping up production for this year, as is AMD.
While there are idiots in every establishment you work for, Geek Squad is not inundated with them. I worked for them while in school and some of the guys took a lot of pride in their work. They have some good tools and training at their disposal. The front Geek Squad guys are the "customer techs" which focus more on selling and checking machines in and out. The smarter guys linger in the back and are known as advanced repair agents. Those are the ones manually removing malware when scans don't get it all, fixing boot issues, upgrading hardware, etc. Sure, requiring A+ would help immensely with getting rid of all the idiots, but some stores run a great crew.
I wonder if this will help them better compete with Nvidia when it comes to making cars smarter. We could certainly use more competition, but I hope Qualcomm can get over their internal staff issues before they get themselves more involved in another industry.
Considering some cable companies offer bundles of TV, Internet, and Phone for ~$60 a month, I see $25-40 as a tough sell. For $60 and having the web plus close to 100 channels, I don't see the benefit of having to buy a box and rely on streaming for only specific channels. Plus, I love using my TiVo commercial skip feature. No ads on most major shows. I do like more competition though. Hopefully Google offers something good for the masses.
If only we could physically hack in a damn Micro SD slot.
Even by knowing the stock was super inflated, you could have still made money and pulled out once it starts to drop off. Some people just rode the wave to make money and waited for something like this to happen. They're still coming out with a good ROI either way.
The largest issue here is creating the advertising ID and sending it over seas without user consent. This is pretty easy to comply with though, given it can all be done with a patch/UI modification.
But if I did, I would have bought some damn stock.
Edge saves power on a few benchmarks but not across the board. Throwing out an arbitrary number of "x" percent could be saved by switching will confuse all the family members that call, asking if they should switch. On the other end, Windows 10 is their own product. They can kind of do whatever they want, and we can decide if we use them or not.
Posts like this are constantly make me question if I should keep returning to this site. Seriously? What parent wouldn't want their kids to be able to hear things if they have the financial means to do so? Who cares if a culture is killed off because we are enabling people to hear/hear again. Should we complain about eliminating wheel-chair marathons because we helped people walk again? Let's just boast about how technology is improving the quality of life instead of focusing on small and insignificant rubbish.
Agreed. Curious on this as well!
I'm glad they're supporting them. I just hope this phone doesn't come with a barrage of preinstalled apps that I don't need or want. If the phone is clean and basically a Nexus-like device with some cool Cyanogen mods, I'm all for it. I want better hardware at lower prices (who doesn't), but I also want a good experience on the phone. We'll see what this does to the future phone market.
Let's add to the fact that the 9/11 terrorists did sound an alarm and multiple investigates we poorly underway. Stupid bureaucratic BS stalled the investigation by the FBI when the NSA passed info on to them. They knew they were suspicious but we were way too slow to respond.
This is actually very exciting for me. I have a fairly advanced Lyme disease with other related diseases (protomyxzoa). I have a worry for long term health issues because Lyme is consistently linked to Parkinson's in the long run. Seeing articles like this always give me the hope I've been expecting with modern medicine and technology. Joe
Wow a company is including a new feature with a service people already pay $60 a year for. How dare they! I like that no one mentions getting 2 free games every month as well. Seems like Microsoft is so awful. You need to pay $60 for almost any online service you do on Microsoft. Who the hell seriously expects being able to stream content online without paying for said service? Oh yeah, the OP. Nothing to see here. Move along... PS: Not a MS fanboy by any means. This is just a biased article that doesn't belong here.
It sounds like a great idea because there's less to carry around. As always we'll see how the device performs, how they're going to manage memory (how much memory?), and how much it will cost. Until then, bring on the innovation.
Exactly. Apple has the resources to increase their web presence for music exposure. It would certainly suggest for more people to use their music over other possibly illegitimate sources. I don't mind Google's response to the whack a mole situation either. It seems highly logical.
I'm not sure why everyone is bashing the cloud. If I have more than one Xbox, which I do, my game saves are on both devices without having to save the file to an overpriced flash drive and then deal with moving it from box to box and worry about losing it. They don't charge extra money for cloud saves because they already screwed you with an annual $60 charge. The feature itself can come in handy for those who use. For those who don't, it currently offers no hindrance on my gameplay or experience. I for one do support cloud saves. Now cloud based gaming is an entirely different animal that I am not too fond of.
I do agree with you. I'm simply referring to the simple tasks the general public does. Web surfing, iTunes, emails, etc. These are not heavily threaded tasks. Granted the difference is marginal because any modern processor can handle this with ease. Sure in highly threaded workloads the AMDs offer a better bang for your buck, but the general public does not do this on a day to day basis.
I guess I need to provide more information to help get my point across. Intel has 4th gen chips that run on a 7 watt TDP. The performance per watt is pretty remarkable. Intel's i7-3770K has a 77 watt TDP. AMD's FX-8350 has a 125 watt TDP, get's spanked by Intel in most benchmarks, and doesn't have any graphics chip on die to drive a monitor. Translating that down, Intel has an advantage. I would love to be proven wrong though.
As usual, AMD is leaving out some key information. What will be the TDP of such chips? I've always rooted for AMD and all my systems were built with them. You can't beat an Ivy Bridge chip for performance for watt though. With the i7-3770K, AMD doesn't offer anything compelling to compete. I like the idea that they're using the GCN architecture to assist with processing, but have they done anything to the lithography or power consumption? Intel's haswell chips come out soon and those are even better. Power is key in the mobile space where a lot of chips are going. -Joe
Honestly instead of a pissing match and comparing highest speeds for bragging rights why don't we focus more on getting gigabit connections throughout our country. What good is a gigabit connection if it's only in a select few spots of the country. Good for Sony, but as everyone mentioned before, they'll find some way to make things proprietary like they always do.
Sorry... Yes IT is a quad vs dual core. Should have spell checked.
Yes is quad VS dual core, but they still sell for the same price. If you compared the A8/A10 to a quad core Intel, it would cost about 33% more at minimum, then people would complain that the Intel costs more and it's not a fair comparison to AMD. Per clock cycle and per core, Intel simply destroys AMD. Factor in price and what you may be using the chip for, and it starts to become a little more competitive. If money is no issue, than an i5/i7 Ivy bridge with dedicated graphics is simply unbeatable. I own an Ivy Bridge i7 and a Phenom II 970 and in some tasks I can't tell a difference.
Also keep in mind that if you utilize the GPU for computing at all, your workload will finish sooner. So yes the power consumption is higher up front but if you finish the job sooner, you still end up consuming the same or less power, and you saved time. This is important with any processor.